A Victory For Severely Disabled People

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24834558

Some common sense prevails at last.

[pixie373]

Isn't it about time they started to prioritise vulnerable people? This money is literally a lifeline to some and will affect the rest of their lives. I wish we could vote on exactly where our taxes go.

[mikey4444]

We can start pixie by kicking this Tory-led shower out, at the next opportunity. Their record on treating disabled people badly is second to none...most if not all of the Remploy places are now closed. Disgraceful.

[factor-fiction]

I admire them for fighting this and it's good to see that our system allows these sorts of appeals.
Are you aware though mikey that the money (£320 million) wasn't being stopped- it was being handed over to councils. The worry was that councils may be tempted to use some of it for other purposes

[Sqad]

mikey....two points:

1) Only one post to your thread indicates how the majority people care about the disabled.
2) Remploy started to be closed down in 2008..........Labour NOT Tory government.

[Peter Pedant]

Even the Chancellor has just so much money.... ( = a set finite amount)

If you set aside £38 bn for banks because they are really a good thing
or you chums run them and there is your next job

then you have do without - aircraft carriers - or shipyards
or something else....

so it is inevitable that vulnerable groups get it in the neck in times of retrenchment [ or else by definition they wouldnt be vulnerable - another group would be ]

no money - no food on the table - its is the same for the rosy cheeked chancellor as it is for us.

anyway - I am glad the litigants won a limited victory....but doesnt really change the cr+p we are in as a result of unbridled greed of the bankers of yore.

[naomi24]

//most if not all of the Remploy places are now closed.//

And those closures began when the Labour government closed 29 factories in 2008. Where's your criticism of that?

[Sqad]

naomi...you are repeating my thread above.;-)

[naomi24]

Sorry Sqad, cross-posted - but great minds think alike. ;o)

[Sqad]

naomi...;-)